Emmi de Jesus, of the Gabriela Girls’s Occasion, slammed Duterte as a “harmful macho-fascist” and informed native information sources, “He has additional offered himself because the epitome of misogyny and fascism terribly rolled in a single.”

Duterte’s spokesperson Harry Roque dismissed the following furor as an overreaction from feminists.

“I imply, that’s humorous. Come on. Simply chortle,” Roque stated.

The federal government has been embroiled in an ongoing battle with communist rebels within the nation, as peace talks stalled after Duterte declared the Communist Occasion and the New Folks’s Military terrorist organizations in 2017.